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Yoko Ono and the film company World Wide Media are in a legal battle over who owns the rights to some undoubtedly priceless footage of John Lennon filmed in 1970. The nine hours of material are claimed to include Lennon smoking a joint, working on songs and describing his plans to put LSD in Richard Nixon's coffee. It was filmed by Anthony Cox, Ono's husband before Lennon, for a planned documentary. World Wide wants to use the footage for a film titled "Three Days In The Life." Despite the fact that World Wide bought the footage directly from Cox, Ono feels she owns the copyright because she'd previously bought the footage from "a Florida man." If you play that backwards, I'm pretty sure you hear the word "bullshit." More »

Bonnaroo—the Manchester, Tenn.-based music festival where those people who describe their tastes as "indie" and those people who really like jam bands come together in a way that hasn't been seen since their freshman-year Psych 101 lectures—is announcing its lineup this week, and to get people excited/remind them to keep checking the official site for updates, the organizers have posted eleven "riddles" that are clues as to who's playing the fest. (A trick sorta ripped off from The Bamboozle, just saying.) I'm an old-school Games Magazine subscriber who loves twisty word games, but these so-called clues proved too much for my Petty-and-chili-addled brain to process. Perhaps you would like to give them a try? They're after the jump. More »